Interart Poetics

Essays on the Interrelations

of the Arts and Media

Edited by

Ulla-Britta Lagerroth
Hans Lund
Erik Hedling

Amsterdam - Atlanta, GA 1997

 Contents

-YULLA-BRITTA LAGERROTH, HANS LUND, ERIK HEDLING: Introduction.

Towards a Poetics of Interart Discourse 7
V STEPHEN GREENBLATT: The Interart Moment 13

I. Ekphrastic and Figural Representation

CLAUS CLUVER: Ekphrasis Reconsidered. On Verbal Representations of
Non-Verbal Texts 19
TAMAR YACOBI: Verbal Frames and Ekphrastic Figuration 35
SIGLIND BRUHN: New Perspectives in a Love Triangle. "Ondine" in
Musical Ekphrasis 47
ARNE MELBERG: Rilke's Poetical Figures 61

II. Collaboration and Interaction in The Performing Arts

ERIKA FISCHER-LICHTE: Performance as Art- Art as Performance 69
WILLMAR SAUTER: Museum-Stage. The Frames Move into the
Exhibition Hall 85
•J LENA HAMMERGREN: Beyond Interart? Displacing the Grand Narrative of
i Performer-Viewer-Art Object 93
MAARETKOSKINEN: "Everything Represents, Nothing Is." Some Relations
between Ingmar Bergman's Films and Theatre Productions 99
CLAES-GORAN HOLMBERG: Extra-Terrestrial Novels 109

III. Music in Dialogue with Other Arts

MOHN NEUBAUER: Tales of Hoffmann and Others. On Narrativizations of
Instrumental Music ' 117
WALTER BERNHART: Cardillac, the Criminal Artist. A Challenge to Opera
as a Musico-Literary Form 137
STEVEN PAUL SCHER: Mozart - an Epistolary Aesthetician? 145
ULRICH WEISSTEIN: How to Read an Opera. Some Methodological Remarks
with Examples Drawn from Mozart's Zauberflote 151
NILS HOLGER PETERSEN: Spren Kierkegaard's Aestheticist and
Mozart's Don Giovanni 167
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IV. Architecture and the Other Arts

LAUREN S. WEINGARDEN: William Gilpin. The Poetics of Picturesque
(Painterly) Perception and Representation 179
STEPHANIE A. MOORE: Reviving the Medieval Model. The Cathedrals of
Claude Monet, Joris-Karl Huysmans and Claude Debussy 195

V. Word-Image Interrelations
ERIC T. HASKELL: Image-Text Intersections. Baudelaire and "Benediction" 211
MICHAEL WEBSTER: E. E. Cummings and the Reader. Technique as Critique 223
KATHLEEN LUNDEEN: Interart as a Deconstructive Device.
Word-Image Syncopation in Matisse's Jazz 233

•- , VI. Visual and Verbal Semiosis

N^GORAN SONESSON: Mute Narratives. New Issues in the Study of :
- ' Pictorial Texts 243
VPENNY FLORENCE: Innovation, Sex and Spatial Structure. Examples from
Mallarmi, Manet and the late Nineteenth Century 253

VII. Interart Aspects on Symbolism and Metaphor

MONA SANDQVIST: Alchemy and Interart 269
ELI ROZIK: The Common Deep Structure of Verbal and Iconic Metaphors 283

VHI. N e w Media
JURGEN E. MULLER: Intermediality. A Plea and Some Theses for a
New Approach in Media Studies 295
Js^JAN-GUNNAR SJOLIN: Man, Body Movement and Time in the
\ New Media of Art 305
ERIC VOS: The Eternal Network. Mail Art, Intermedia Semiotics, .
Interarts Studies 325
. THOMAS ELSAESSER: History and Hyperbole. Towards an Archeology of
Interactive Systems 337

Notes on Contributors 341

INDEX 346